What Happened to Galileo? IN#12

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. -Galileo

I have collected many proofs [that the Earth revolves around the Sun] but I do not publish them, because I am deterred by the fate of our teacher Copernicus who, although he had won immortal fame with a few, was ridiculed and condemned by countless people for (for very great is the number of the stupid). -Galileo in a letter to the scientist Kepler

If you would resolve to commit to print those ideas that you still have in mind, I am quite certain that they would be most acceptable to His Holiness, who never ceases from admiring your eminence and preserves intact his attachment for you. You should not deprive the world of your productions." -Ciampoli, Secretary to the Pope

The months and the years pass, my life wastes away, and my work is condemned to rot. -Galileo, as he waited for his book to be published

Your Galileo has ventured to meddle in things that he ought not and with the most grave and dangerous subjects that can be stirred up these days. -Pope Urban

For two nights continuous...cried and moaned in sciatic pain; and his advancing age and sorrow - The Grand Duke, who took Galileo to trial

I held, as I still hold, as most true and indisputable… the opinion of Ptolemy, that is to say, the stability of the Earth and the motion of the Sun… I do not now hold Copernicus’s opinion...I am here in your hands--do with me what you please -Galileo at his Trial

And, so that you will be more cautious in future, and an example for others to abstain from delinquencies of this sort, we order that the book Dialogue of Galileo Galilei be prohibited by public edict. We condemn you to formal imprisonment in this Holy Office at our pleasure. -Galileo’s verdict by the seven Cardinals

Galileo Comic What would Galileo Say? INA#13 You will… –Create a comic about Galileo’s life –Color your comic –Not use stick figures –Use 2 of the quotes from IN#12